Convert Gigabits to Gibibytes
Convert Gigabits (Gbit) to Gibibytes (GiB) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
GiB = Gbit × 0.1164153218
About Gigabits
A gigabit (Gbit) = 10⁹ bits (SI). 1 Gbit/s Ethernet (1000BASE-T) is the enterprise baseline; 10/25/100/400 Gbit/s are data-centre standards. Bus speeds: PCIe 4.0 ×16 = 256 Gbit/s; Thunderbolt 4 = 40 Gbit/s; HDMI 2.1 = 48 Gbit/s. NVMe SSDs: PCIe 4 ≈ 57 Gbit/s; PCIe 5 > 112 Gbit/s. Submarine cables: 200 Gbit/s per wavelength × hundreds of wavelengths. 1 Gbit = 10⁹ bits = 125 MB.
About Gibibytes
A gibibyte (GiB) = 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824 bytes (IEC 80000-13). The source of the 'storage discrepancy': a '500 GB' drive contains 500×10⁹ bytes ≈ 465.66 GiB as shown by Windows. RAM is manufactured in exact powers of 2: 4/8/16/32/64 GiB. GPU VRAM: RTX 4090 = 24 GiB; H100 = 80 GiB; MI300X = 192 GiB HBM3. Kubernetes memory limits use Gi suffixes. 1 GiB = 2³⁰ bytes = 1,024 MiB.
Quick Reference Table
| Gigabits (Gbit) | Gibibytes (GiB) |
|---|---|
| 1 Gbit | 0.116415 GiB |
| 2 Gbit | 0.232831 GiB |
| 5 Gbit | 0.582077 GiB |
| 10 Gbit | 1.16415 GiB |
| 25 Gbit | 2.91038 GiB |
| 50 Gbit | 5.82077 GiB |
| 100 Gbit | 11.6415 GiB |